Word: erects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pray that these lawmakers will have the good sense, then the gumption, to turn down ever mounting school demands. The greatest symbol educators could erect--which they won't erect--is to revive, in the class rooms, not secular panaceas, but a boundless faith...
...endless line of 305,806 people shuffled past the high catafalque, flanked by guardsmen in gleaming cuirasses and Tudor-clad Beefeaters from the Tower of London. On the third night of the watch, majestic Queen Mary came with her eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, to stand stiff and erect for 20 minutes before her son's bier. Early the next evening, Queen Elizabeth, her granddaughter, slipped in with Philip and Princess Margaret. The widowed Queen came a few hours later, and remained for 20 minutes...
Outclassed from the start, the Crimson could erect no defense to stop the sharp-shooting Big Red, paced by John Werner and co-Captain Fred Eydt. Forest Hansen and Bill-Dennis picked up ten points each for the Crimson...
...R.A.F. guard of honor snapped to attention as a tall, erect European stepped out of his plane at London's Northolt Airport. A Daimler with a British crown on its windshield whisked him off to the finest suite (101-102) at Claridge's. Next day, Winston Churchill welcomed him at lunch at 10 Downing Street; at week's end he drove to Buckingham Palace to spend a chatty half hour with King George VI. To make the honored guest feel at home in chilly London, the British government rounded up 200 of his fellow countrymen to take...
...difficulty he was talking about is the creation of a European defense army, including twelve German divisions. Without the Germans, he said, "we can, in Western Europe, erect a defense that can, at least, although expensively and uneasily, produce a stalemate. But that is not enough...